{"id":231,"date":"2012-10-23T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2012-10-23T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:38:38","slug":"sharp-rise-in-peanut-allergy-emerges-in-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Sharp rise in peanut allergy emerges in study;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sharp rise in peanut allergy emerges in study;\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>strict preventive protections said justified<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The recent <em>Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology<\/em> had a research paper from the University of Minnesota looking at peanut allergy. By means of a long-term study these scientists found a <em>tripling<\/em> of peanut allergy in children since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>More than three-quarters of the peanut-allergic children in their study were under the age of 2. Also, 70 percent of the peanut allergy was in boys.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists don\u2019t know what accounts for this dramatic increase. One theory they are considering is low vitamin D levels. Remember, the population studied was in Minnesota. The researchers recommend active steps to create peanut-free environments, such as peanut bans on airplanes, peanut-free sections at baseball parks and \u201cschool safe\u201d lunch programs. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>They feel such severe measures are justifiable since peanut allergy reactions tend to be severe and even potentially life-threatening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp rise in peanut allergy emerges in study;\u00a0 strict preventive protections said justified \u00a0The recent Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology had a research paper from the University of Minnesota looking at peanut allergy. By means of a long-term study these scientists found a tripling of peanut allergy in children since 1999. More than three-quarters of the peanut-allergic children in their study were under the age of 2. Also, 70 percent of the peanut allergy was in boys. The scientists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=231\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-peanut-allergy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}